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The Wolff's were the only Eaxis house that intrigued me. If anyone else has played that house, what did you end up doing? Kids, no kids, split them up? Rapture them both?

I believe I stole the wife for a Sim of mine, but she was almost elder by that point. Because I am a moron, I didn't realize AFs can spawn right up until their elder transition (nor did I realize the idiocy of starting with a single male Sim). So, I used the "Kick Out" function, and married my founder off to someone else. A little while later, I got the "Morgana Wolff is getting old and doesn't have much time left..." message. Predictably, she died a few days later.

I never even really looked at the premade families, so I can't say which ones do and don't interest me. However, iirc, the Wolffs are a childless couple. Those are the sorts of families that would intrigue me the most. EA-made kids are just bothersome.

AS the Wolff lot is one of those with the "beautiful vista" moodlet, and I want those for my houses and sims, the Wolff family went to the trashbin and the home was sledgehammered into oblivion.

I worked really hard on his wishes and had him change his traits and got rid of the hate children.  They then had twins.  The game before, I didn't bother and had her have children anyways.  They get so many moodlets at home the negative doesn't matter.  But getting a red moodlet whenever your are around your children really bugged me.  He makes a great Dad-don't give up on him.  They are worth it--cute couple.

I always make sure they have at least a couple of kids, if nothing else, because they often have really pretty daughters. They are a fairly interesting couple to really play, though, too.  I've found that I like the pre-made sims more in TS3 than I have in previous games. There are really only a few of them that I don't like at all.

I like the Wolff family as well, though I haven't played them. In my previous Sunset Valley, they had a daughter, Marlena, who inherited her father's silver-tipped hair. It was interesting to see a child with grey streaks, but she eventually grew into it. She later cloned spawned herself, passing the silver tipped hair to another daughter. I then married one of the sons in my family to her, hoping they'd breed. I did play them to make them try for baby, twice, but failed to get her pregnant. They died of old age, and left the house empty.

I didn't pay much attention to them originally, but I did end up moving one of their descendants in with my one of my Sims to be his mistress.  Of course his wife didn't notice that half the kids in the house weren't hers.

Oddly enough, it seems that toddlers have X-ray vision and detect infidelity through several walls.  None of his kids ended up liking him much, since they'd all get upset when he'd WooHoo with the other woman.

 - Gus

I married Morgana and Thornton's daughter into my 'legacy' family. I had the family living in that house for a while, but then built them a house on the beach. The Wolff house, slightly altered, still stands empty in my hood.

I stole Thornton from Morgana to marry my CAS sim.  I changed his traits via the mid life crisis perk and although I don't specifically remember what new ones I gave him, I do remember getting rid of the frugal trait.  I got tired of him turning the lights off every time he had a second to himself.  One time he even clapped twice and turned them all off, reminded me of my grandmother. :D

That's hilarious! I haven't seen him do that yet.

I'm going to tough it out with him hating his own child and hope it causes some drama. I do love his hair as well - I had a little trouble keeping him off my main sim :P Her housemate flirted with him, and now everyone hates him.

I've enjoyed watching him attempt to make up for lost time with his daughters once they became teens. Once they aren't children anymore he chases them down with the "Get to know" interaction at every opportunity.

I attempted to make one of my favourite sims have an affair with Morgana. She knocked him down. I've ignored the family since then. I think they died out actually.

In my Maximum Drama game, Thornton was poached by a Gold-digger. After the marriage, I had her actively interfere with his ability to get to work, and eventually got him fired, at which point she killed him off. Then I decided the shock would have completely unhinged Morgana, so I addtraited her to Insane, Inappropriate, and Loser, and undermined her until she lost her job, then killed her off.

Currently, the Gold-digger is eyeing the Alto family....

I moved them into the other modern beach house and bulldozed theirs so that Mr. Anthony Edward Stark could build a smaller version of his Malibu house on that lot and begin his hostile takeover of Doo Peas and Landgraab, thereby transforming the town into Stark Valley.  (shameless plug for his house that my husband built and I decorated - http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=541616)

OSHI-

I have to hear more of this neighborhood. That is pure comedy.

I do with the Wolff family same as all the other families in my game.  Delete the female Sims and make the males gay.  I too like the Wolff house along with some of the other homes in Sunset Valley.  The homes in Riverview don't impress me as much as the more modern style homes in the Valley.  I often build a top floor over the study in the Wolff house for a separate bedroom/bath/study for a "roomie" Sim.  I like putzing around with his home, I do keep the original woods, walls and the patterns of the furniture and try to stay true to the original exterior and interior of the home design when I make alterations.

There's a disappointing lack of spontaneous revenge-taking on my Gold-digger; while Thornton is her first kill, she's cheerfully interfered in five or six other relationships, and so far I haven't even observed a flamingo-kicking or a trashcan-dumping. I may have just missed them, of course, but it seems like my Sims are generally resigned to life. And, I suppose it's actually more of a "maximum misery" neighborhood. For instance, anyone with the Good trait must have their lives ruined. Holly Alto is probably going to be reverse-Aliced (http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/). I haven't decided which family is going to get to host a re-enactment of the last half or so of Hamlet, but I think a surviving Ophelia (female OR male) would make an interesting ornament to the neighborhood.

I also put a sort of Jason Voorhees Sim into play. I set him to hot-headed, mean-spirited, charismatic, etc, put him on an empty lot, and let him go. Occasionally, I direct him to the park, but generally the empty lot + charismatic trait seem to keep him going on his own. Every once in a while, I check on him. The rule is, any Sim he has a negative relationship with has is now marked for death. It seems to take quite a while without direction for this to happen; in about 2 game weeks of free range, I've only killed off one Sim this way (Dorie Hart).

I'm considering a zombie apocalypse style game based off of this, actually. Same premise-- start with a Patient Zero, let him/her infect
and instead of killing off any negative-relation Sims, add/droptrait them into pseudo-zombies, and see how long it takes to contaminate the whole place. I'm betting quite a long time, so it's the kind of game where I'll probably set it to run when I'll be AFK for a while (although the opportunity / phone pop-ups are likely to make that problematic).

They had a daughter named Alyssa who has the evil trait. One of my kids from my legacy family stayed with her for a sleep-over. She's a teen now, I think, and I may marry her off to one of my 5 legacy children.

My self Sim seduced Thornton Wolff into having a quick gay love affair and convinced him to break up with his wife. Shortly after that my Sim proceeded to pay a visit to the ex-wife to ask her "are you single?" which swiftly resulted in the declaration of Nemesis. Thornton, realizing his  true sexuality, moved out and became housemates with crazy fag-hag, Agnes Crumplebottom. They are both dead now.

The Thorntons had a daughter before all this happened. She is sleeping with my Sim's son.

I almost trashed them just to make use of their nicely-placed lot, but I decided to keep them around to see if they would spawn any kids.  They did have one boy named Dequan, but Story Progression also moved in an enormous white woman and a teenage boy.

I haven't done much yet. I tried to have an affair with Thornton, but he kept refusing, despite finding my Sim irresistible and having maxed relationship. Later, I noticed they had a son, and suddenly, one of my children met a little black boy in school, with the last name Wolff, but he didn't live with the Wolff family and I never got around to figuring out if he was even related to them.

I deleted them and placed my own sims in their house. BAM!

I don't bother to delete females.  I just use "editsim" and switch their gender.

As for the Wolffs, I've yet to play them (or most of the other pre-mades for that matter) but I'll give them a shot next time.

Everything you just said. MOAR OF IT PLES. That is pure gold; I'm totally going to be trying this.

PROTIP: If you're breaking up a family with kids, get the homewrecker to befriend them first!

It makes it extra poignant when the parents get split up; and, if you time it right, not only does the kid get to live through the death of (at least) one parent, but has to live under the usurper's control indefinitely. That's the strategy my gold-digger will take with the Altos; at the moment, however, she's relaxing in her mini-condo by the sea. (Also, three new deaths in the Voorhees game. Tori Kimura took an especial dislike to him. Goodness knows why.)

Does it count as griefing if it's a single-player game?

I am planning to make Thornton Wolff the sex slave/victim/sperm donor of sim Paris Hilton that I've downloaded from MTS. Somehow it was easier to get that old man Goth to fall in love with her that Thorntorn.

My Sim Paris Hilton was disinherited by her family so she has moved to Sims Valley near penniless  :P

Don't know why, but for some reason I felt compelled to have the Wolffs and Landgraabs switch spouses. I now have my Wolff-Landgraab household and my Landgraab-Wolff household. I feel my decision was pretty warranted, too. Morgana and Thornton weren't really compatible to begin with and Nancy & Geoffrey are apparently blood relatives of some sort since Nancy's maiden name was/is Landgraab. No wonder Malcolm's so ugly (at least in my game).

If you read the bio of the Landgraab family, it says that Geoffrey took Nancy's name because of her family's status in the town.

I did the same thing--the location, the lot with the home gym, and the hint of gray in his side-burns made him the perfect target.  I was disappointed that Mrs. Wolff didn't come by everyfingday to kick over my garbage can ala TS2. 

I was going to leave them to it, but since all his kid-hating trait does is harm his work performance, I had an Evil sim seduce him so she could have an heir to her fortune without the husband-hindrance. They have several traits in common, so it was easy, and Thornton seemed delighted.

Now I have to go back to their house and see if Morgana kicks him out. I was hoping she'd fall in love with a more suitable guy, but she seems stuck on hubbie. It's too much like real life!

I'm playing all the households in the neighborhood and wasn't particularly interested in playing the Wolffs but, yeah, they're one a the more interesting households I've played so far.

I've only played them a week. She got pregnant right away and had a daughter. She saved up lifetime achievement points to get the fertility perk and got pregnant again. Whathisname doesn't seem to mind; he actually seemed to be enjoying the first kid after she became a toddler.

I think they'll do fine. I figure Mr. Wolff will interact with the kids as little as humanly possible -- kinda a traditional American dad -- and he should be fine.

Their house is one of the nicest ones in Sunset Valley. It's gonna break my heart to chop up their bedroom into a couple rooms for the kids, but I'lm not sure what else to do short of adding floor space above the two-story living room, whouc would be even more blasphemous. Maybe I'll put some kids in the study, and some down in the weight room.

I had a hard time expanding the house, too, because I didn't want to get rid of the study or place the kids' bedroom next to the exercise room. So I put some stairs next to the TV room and put 2 bedrooms and another bathroom up top. The house annoys me, because the camera slips off the main level, but I haven't had the time to raze it and rebuild.